Keywords: 
• 国民性 /
• 国家精神 /
• 民族认同 /
• 公民意识 /
• 国民教育

Abstract: The concept of “national character” first emerged during the age of European Enlightenment. Since then it has been defined and interpreted. Its origins and historical changes show that “national character” combines two connotations. Politically it is closely related with the establishment and consolidation of the nationstate. Academically it represents a common psychological structure formed in the mutual adaptation of a nation and its own peculiar cultural ecosystem. To shape the humanity accomplishment, citizen consciousness and national spirit of modern Chinese, modern education should be developed into a dynamic, crossing and allround educational ecosystem to cultivate Chinese national character, which not only follows the idea of modern humanism education and civic education, but also inherits and promotes the spirit of Chinese traditional education “to help students understand society, to cultivate students”; and which fulfills the play of “national cultural psychological field” to enhance national character and cultural identity based on the philosophy of concerning persons spiritual growth.